VI. Plasticity and order 60 VII. The meaning of justice 62 VIII. The future of Plato 64 CHAPTER III FRANCIS BACON AND THE SOCIAL POSSIBILITIES OF SCIENCE I. From Plato to Bacon 67 II. Character 69 III. The expurgation of the intellect 70 IV. Knowledge is power 74 V. The socialization of science 76 VI. Science and Utopia 79 VII. Scholasticism in science 81 VIII. The Asiatics of Europe 85 CHAPTER IV SPINOZA ON THE SOCIAL PROBLEM I. Hobbes 90 II. The spirit of Spinoza 91 III. Political ethics 93 IV. Is man a political animal? 95 V. What the social problem is 98 VI. Free speech 101 VII. Virtue as power 105 VIII. Freedom and order 108 IX. Democracy and intelligence 112 X. The legacy of Spinoza 115 CHAPTER V NIETZSCHE I. From Spinoza to Nietzsche 117 II. Biographical 120 III. Exposition 126 1. Morality as impotence 126 2. Democracy 128 3. Feminism 131 4. Socialism and anarchism 133 5. Degeneration 138 6. Nihilism 141 7. The will to power 143 8. The superman 150 9. How to make supermen 155 10. On the necessity of exploitation 159 11. Aristocracy 162 12. Signs of ascent 165 IV. Criticism 172 V. Nietzsche replies 177